Some Post Thanksgiving Obamacare Schadenfreude Leftovers

A few niggling articles out there that escaped the grand summaries from the pre Thanksgiving news dumps. Read these as you munch on your next turkey sandwich, with stuffing, and maybe some runny cranberry sauce.

Mike Murphy: Obamacare Is a GOP Jackpot

One of the few joys in the down-and-dirty world of politics is seeing your opponents in a hole, shovels still busily swinging. The secret is knowing how to stay out of the way while plotting to bury them.

President Obama's remarkable botching of the Obamacare rollout is exactly the reboot opportunity the Republican Party needed: a huge failure by its opponents and a priceless opportunity after the ill-advised government shutdown.

Without even buying a ticket, the GOP has won the Powerball of politics. But in our happy delirium, we Republicans should be brutally honest with ourselves. Democrats are flailing right now--but that doesn't mean Republicans are in control. We didn't earn this. Sure, we were right about Obamacare. But telling the country what we are against is only a start. To really run the table and take back the White House and the Senate, the GOP must do the hard work of a true party reset. If we don't, a big Democratic comeback in 2016 is quite likely, even with the failures of Obamacare. Here is the path forward.

Yes, there's no scenario rosy enough that you can't screw it up.  We need to make the most of this.  Yes, the problems with the website are fun, but the real damage starts after they make it work.

But help is on the horizon, as the democrats are falling back on their command and control roots for running health care: Senate Dems want HealthCare.gov CEO

Seven Senate Democrats are calling on President Obama to appoint a permanent "chief executive officer" to oversee the ObamaCare website after the departure of Jeffrey Zients at the end of the year.

In a letter sent to the White House on Tuesday, seven Senate Democrats say the position should report directly to the president and be “empowered with the authority to ensure that healthcare.gov is fixed quickly, completely, and permanently.”

 Because the people he chose to build the system and run it (like Secretary Sebelius) have been sooo effective.

Meanwhile, Obamacare as written continues to take more people off of insurance than it puts on.

Boy with cancer loses coverage after Obamacare launch

Hunter Alford is the happy kid next door with a big grin who idolizes country music star Blake Shelton.

His parents call him a “wild, fun loving, zombie-killing boy who loves the military and police.”

Well, I can see why the liberals would want him dead. Loves the military and police, and likes to kill occupiers zombies. And he's from the liberals most hated state, Texas.

He is normal in every way, except this 7-year-old already plays guitar and keyboards and has his heart set on learning to fiddle.

Something else sets Hunter apart.

He was born with a rare form of cancer and lost his health insurance just after Obamacare went into effect.

Americans were told the health-care law was designed to help children just like Hunter, born with a deadly pre-existing condition and little means to pay for expensive treatments.

The Affordable Care Act was not supposed to take away the insurance these most-vulnerable children already had and leave them utterly defenseless against a life-threatening disease.

Answers are hard to come by, but it looks like that’s what the president’s signature achievement has done in the small town of Gainesville, Texas.